On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 14:36 -0700, James McKenzie wrote: > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Mateusz Stachowski > <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Until the Precise I was using only 32bit Ubuntu. With these release I've decided to try 64bit and made a clean install (besides the Home > > folder which is the same for 3+ years). > > > > Aside from not been able to build the 32bit version of Wine without chroot environment I've found the 64bit flavor of Ubuntu to be much > > slower. I don't know what's causing it but it's really much slower than the 11.10 32bit that I was using before. > > > > There are also problems with programs nuvolaplayer is even more crashy and very slugish (that didn't exist on 32bit). Flash Player is just > > unusable but I could use it on 32bit with much less crashes. > > > > > > That's my hardware configuration: > > > > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64 > > > > Distro: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS > > > > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ > > 2 cores/threads > > 2300.00 MHz > > > > RAM: GeIL 2 GB DDR II 800 Dual Ultra CL4 > > Why would you want to install a 64 bit OS on this system? You might > not gain anything, and (based on your experience) actually have a > slower system. > > I would install a 32 bit version of 12.04 on this system until you can > put 4 GB or more of RAM. > The OP may find it useful to know that a 32 bit PAE kernel can address up to 64 GB of RAM. This is something I only found out in the last day or two. IOW if he's running a 32 bit PAE kernel and wants to add another 4GB of RAM, then he can just drop the extra RAM into its slots and reboot. Any decision to move to a 64 bit system can then wait until a natural upgrade point such as the release of the the next version of his distro. I'm not grinding and 32 vs 64 bit axes, just passing on some useful infomation. I should add that I don't know if Ubuntu has a 32 bit PAE kernel. I use Fedora, which provides a choice of two kernels: the 32-bit PAE and the 64 bit one. Martin
